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SCHOL'AR, n. Low L. scholaris, from schola, a school Gr. leisure, a school. See School.

1. One who learns of a teacher one who is under the tuition of a preceptor a pupil a disciple hence, any member of a college, academy or school applicable to the learner of any art, science or branch of literature.
2. A man of letters.
3. Emphatically used, a man eminent for erudition a person of high attainments in science or literature.
4. One that learns any thing as an apt scholar in the school of vice.
5. A pedant a man of books. But the word scholar seldom conveys the idea of a pedant.
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Entry for 'Scholar'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​s/scholar.html.
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